From the New York Times via an op-ed by Roger Cohen – “Community — a stable job, shared national experience, extended family, labor unions — has vanished or eroded. In its place have come a frenzied individualism, solipsistic screen-gazing, the disembodied pleasures of social networking and the à-la-carte life as defined by 600 TV channels and a gazillion blogs. Feelings of anxiety and inadequacy grow in the lonely chamber of self-absorption and projection.”
Oh ain’t it awful. Maybe the urban-angst crowd needs a hike in the Yellowstone’s backcountry, sans cell phone. That usually helps.
posted by Mudd
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